Dan has been asked to speak by New York City-based organization, Leaders in Software and Art (LISA). He was chosen by Erik Sanner for the originality of his portfolio of works and his use of technology in production. His work is of interest to LISA as it resides at the intersection of art and technology. Other LISA speakers have included noteworthy artists such as Scott Draves and Anne Spalter.
The event was on Dec. 18th, 2011, by invitation only.
Live stream. Dan @ 30 min. http://ustream.tv/channel/softwareandart
What is it with the incessant lamentation that artists didn’t “get what they deserved while they were alive”?
It’s probably their own fault, so knock it off.
Take note of the artists who sought attention in their own time compared to those who did not. What sense does it make to mourn those who didn’t bother asking for recognition? Didn’t they get exactly what they asked for? Van Gogh detested marketing and business and was quite clear that he wished to “leave a memento before he died” as he did not “care much for his own life”....
My ability to execute my creative ideas is far outstripped by my volume of thoughts of possible art to come. Therefore I present my first speculative essay. The topic is the use of computers to advance the practice of music composition and performance:
Due to it’s mathematical roots, music lends itself well to use in computing. Western classical music notation is discrete in nature with pitch, duration, dynamics, and phrasing meticulously spelled out for the performer. The framework of music theory and counterpoint both can be reduced to more or less mathematical relationships. 20th...
Robert Seidel is one of the more original and skilled video painters alive, wielding novel techniques, a solid color concept, and a heartfelt sense of time.
His work recently showed on the world’s largest LCD display, mounted on the Seoul Square Building in Korea. The screen stands at 78 meters (256 feet) high, stretching 99 meters wide and covering a total 7,722 square meters (83,118 square feet). The display is made up of 42,000 LEDs fixed into Spanish terracotta tiles which cover the entire 19 floors of the Seoul Square building. The exhibit runs until Sept. 27th.
Vimeo http://vimeo.com/robertseidel/scrape
Youtube...
The Lytro camera employs a breakthrough technology called a microlens array to gather a significantly larger amount of data with each shot. The photographer, or others, can later sift through this data using computer tools, adjusting the focus point of the picture in post-production. The concept was first proposed by the founder of Lytro, Ren Ng, in his computer science dissertation in 2006 at Standford University. The paper won the Association of Computing Machinery’s worldwide competition that year. Now Mr. Ng is working to translate the idea into a saleable camera technology. ...
Leaders in Software Art (LISA) is an artist-run salon in New York dedicated to art which is generated by code. Thirty to fifty artists, collectors, and curators gather in a loft or artist studio each month to hear several artists present their work. The event is curated by Isabel Walcott Draves, wife of Scott Draves of Electric Sheep fame, though other founders such as Erik Sanner occasionally organize the event. The salon is by invite only.
Boston-based artist Mark Stock will be presenting in June, 2011. details here
In order to understand our world of computer-aided visual art, it’s worthwhile to look up from the screen and and see others fighting the same battles in nearby mediums. Computer music parallels computer visual arts in many ways. Here’s a splendid New York Times article about one of the original technical music crusaders, Max Mathews.
In the Place Where We Live
Dan Hermes is exhibiting a series of portraits and landscapes featuring the New England area.
Sept. 24-25, 2011, 11am-6pm
Hope Church
85 Seaverns Avenue
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
map
Downloadable map of the entire event with all artists. We’re #14
18th Annual Jamaica Plain Open Studios
“Kitchen’s Door”, Erik Sanner
2011
Video projection onto oil painting on wood panel
23″ x 40″
used with permission
can be seen at
A TOOL IS A MIRROR
Boston Cyberarts 2011
@ Mobius
725 Harrison Avenue, Suite One
Boston MA 02118
Fri Apr 22, 2011 - Sun May 08, 2011
A Tool Is A Mirror
Every keyboard reflects a hand
and every screen an eye.
Aerostatic
Sheila Gallagher
Dennis Hlynsky
Brian Kane
Duncan Laurie
Rupert Nesbitt
Erik Sanner
Curated by Elizabeth Keithline
Gallery Hours:
Fri & Sat 11am – 4pm
Exhibit runs thru June, 2011
Cyberarts Central
Waterfront Square Atrium
290 Congress Street
Boston, MA
Details here
still from Red Square #1, Dan Hermes
The dramatic glass-enclosed Waterfront Square Atrium at Atlantic Wharf in downtown Boston is the site of an exhibition of slow-moving dynamic digital painting, digital animation, and algorithmically generated software that explores fluid dynamics and digital and artificial life. Works included by Brian Knep, Andrew Neumann, Robert Arnold, Dennis Miller and Dan Hermes. An unusual number of moving paintings are on display in this exhibition. ...
Anne Spalter’s digital video drawing, “Fracture”, shown at Stephan Stoyanov’s gallery in NYC in Feb 2011, has been acquired by the Albright-Knox museum in Buffalo NY. ‘It’s permanent collection, which includes works by most of the great artists of the late 19th and the 20th centuries, as well as many emerging artists, has been cited as one of the world’s top international surveys of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture.’
http://www.annespalter.com/digitalvideodrawings.html
Design Journal has announced their 2011 Awards for Design Excellence and we are thankful to announce that three of our moving paintings were recognized.
Fountain
ADEX 2011 Silver Award
Violinist
ADEX 2011 Gold Award
Queen Annes Lace
ADEX 2011 Platinum Award
review by Dan Hermes –
Drawing with Code: Works from the Anne and Michael Spalter Collection is a computer-generated art exhibition at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in early 2011. Pieces date from 1952 to 2007 and draw on twentieth century visual art inspiration, bold color juxtaposition, strong visual composition, and shapes speaking for themselves and largely devoid of cultural reference, social implication, or conceptual angle. Many artists in the exhibit identify collectively as “Algorists”, artists whose work is based on mathematical algorithms. All the works...
Moving digital paintings are used in one of three ways:
Framed – one or more framed flat-screen televisions
Projection – on walls, floors, or ceilings
Licensed – paintings for pre-existing televisions, computers, or displays
FRAMED
Framed moving digital paintings range in size from six inches to sixty inches for single screen installations. Forty plus sized screens are arresting from a dozen feet awayand sixty inch screens can draw a viewer into a large room, such as a lobby or penthouse.Multiple screen installations can occupy an entire wall, or an entire hallway—bounded...
The new album is here. Keys, composition, and recording by me, Dan Hermes. Details here.
Moving painting is a growing genre of art designed for display on flat screen televisions and projection installations. Also called video paintings, dynamic paintings, ambient paintings, moving digital paintings, and ambient video this medium exploits the ubiquity and affordability of screens and monitors in today’s world. Drawing on the western tradition of oil painting, these compositions are designed with form, shape, color, and narrative with the added element of time. Unlike traditional video art and film, the works are designed to be utilized daily in a living space. They are...
It seems that Kanye West has made his contribution to the moving painting genre:
The compositing, aspect, and speed juxtaposition considerations in this video are not insignificant.
Winner of the 12th Annual
IIDA/Hospitality Design Magazine
Product Design Competition – Artwork
Flash vs. Silverlight: a useful technical comparison here at Smashingmagazine. And the winner by category:
Animation – Silverlight
File size – Flash
Scripting – Silverlight
Video/Audio – Silverlight
Sound processing – Flash
Accessibility – Flash
Platform compatibility – Flash
Text representation/SEO – Silverlight
Supported image formats – Flash
Socket programming – Flash
Webcam support – Flash
Deployment – Flash
Windows application – Flash
Media streaming – Silverlight
Other...
Hospitality Style magazine, print and online, recently showcased my moving digital paintings. A tiny write-up, but I’m grateful for it. I’ve gotten calls on it from around the country.
What is it with the incessant lamentation that artists didn’t “get what they deserved while they were alive”? It’s probably their own fault, so knock it off. Take note of the artists who sought attention in their own time compared to those who did not. What sense does it make to mourn those who didn’t bother asking for recognition?
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Robert Seidel is one of the more original and skilled video painters alive, wielding novel techniques, a solid color concept, and a heartfelt sense of time. His work recently showed on the world’s largest LCD display, mounted on the Seoul Square Building in Korea. The screen stands at 78 meters (256 feet) high, stretching 99
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